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11. Ohio. Miss Clara Russell, 903 Paradrome street, Cincinnati. 



12. Pennsylvania. Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first 



street, Philadelphia. 



13. Rhode Island. Mrs. H. P. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street, Prov- 



idence. 



14. West Virginia. Elizabeth I. Cummins, 1314 Chapline street, 



Wheeling. 



15. Wisconsin. Mrs. Geo. W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, 



Milwaukee. 



16. California. Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



17. Tennessee. Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



18. Texas. Miss Cecile Seixas, 2008 Thirty-ninth street, Galveston. 1 



It is to be hoped that in the near future this society 

 will be able to extend its work to every state and terri- 

 tory. Every large city should also have a society. 

 Officers of the societies will do well to correspond with 

 the teachers who have charge of the nature study work 

 in the schools. 



All adults who continue to break the laws enacted 

 for the protection of song birds should be warned, and 

 prosecuted, if necessary. In states where no such laws 

 exist, the society should see that they are enacted. It 

 will also prove desirable to pass a law combining a Bird 

 Day with the Arbor Day now observed in many states. 



TEXT OF THE MINNESOTA BIRD AND ARBOR DAY 

 LAW, PASSED 1899 



" The governor is hereby authorized to set apart each 

 year, by proclamation, one day to be designated as 

 Arbor and Bird Day, and to request its observance by 



1 This list is taken from the October number of Bird Lore. 



